Werder Bremen vs Borussia Monchengladbach

22 May 2021 · Bundesliga · 2020/21 · Referee Felix Brych

Full time 2 – 4

Half-time: 0–1

Milot Rashica 80’
Niclas Füllkrug 83’

Lars Stindl 3’
Marcus Thuram 52’
Ramy Bensebaini 58’
Florian Neuhaus 67’

Match summary

Borussia Monchengladbach beat Werder Bremen 4-2 on the road. Borussia Monchengladbach led 1-0 at half-time.

In the first half, Lars Stindl put Borussia Monchengladbach ahead in the 3rd minute, set up by Stefan Lainer. In the second half, Marcus Thuram made it 0-2 in the 52nd minute, set up by Hannes Wolf, Ramy Bensebaini made it 0-3 with a header in the 58th minute, set up by Lars Stindl, Florian Neuhaus made it 0-4 in the 67th minute, set up by Lars Stindl, Milot Rashica pulled one back to make it 1-4 in the 80th minute, set up by Kevin Möhwald, and Niclas Füllkrug made it 2-4 in the 83rd minute, set up by Romano Schmid.

There was little between the sides on chances: Werder Bremen created 1.88 expected goals (xG) from 16 shots, Borussia Monchengladbach 2.00 from 16.

Match stats

16 Shots 15

8 Shots on Target 8

3 Corners 5

1 Yellow Cards 2

0 Red Cards 0

1.88 xG 2.00

1.88 Non-penalty xG 2.00

10 Deep Completions 7

Key events

Werder Bremen Borussia Monchengladbach

Kick-off

3’

Lars Stindl
Assist: Stefan Lainer

0-1

Half-time0-1

52’

Marcus Thuram
Assist: Hannes Wolf

0-2

58’

Ramy Bensebaini
Assist: Lars Stindl

0-3

67’

Florian Neuhaus
Assist: Lars Stindl

0-4

Milot Rashica
Assist: Kevin Möhwald

1-4

80’

Niclas Füllkrug
Assist: Romano Schmid

2-4

83’

Full-time2-4

Bookings

Card times are not on file for this game, so they are listed without a minute.

Werder Bremen

Niklas Moisander

Borussia Monchengladbach

Denis Zakaria
Hannes Wolf

How the chances added up

Running total of expected goals (xG) for each side through the match. xG rates each chance by how often similar shots are scored. A goal is marked where it was scored.

Werder Bremen 1.88 xGBorussia Monchengladbach 2.00 xG Goal

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Shot map

Every shot and where it was taken from.

Borussia Monchengladbach attacking Werder Bremen attacking

Size shows xG Goal On target Off target or blocked

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Player stats

Player	Pos	Min	G	A	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Jiri Pavlenka	GK	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Theodor Gebre Selassie	DEF	90			2	0.03	0.00	0
Niklas Moisander	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.01	1
Ömer Toprak	DEF	82			0	0.00	0.00	0
Marco Friedl	DEF	90			1	0.02	0.00	0
Maximilian Eggestein	MID	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Romano Schmid	MID	90		1	0	0.00	0.09	1
Jean-Manuel Mbom	MID	58			1	0.06	0.07	2
Leonardo Bittencourt	MID	82			2	0.04	0.04	2
Davie Selke	FWD	70			3	0.97	0.06	1
Joshua Sargent	FWD	70			1	0.02	0.46	1
Yuya Osako	Sub	32			1	0.10	0.22	1
Niclas Füllkrug	Sub	20	1		3	0.14	0.00	0
Milot Rashica	Sub	20	1		2	0.49	0.03	1
Felix Agu	Sub	8			0	0.00	0.00	0
Kevin Möhwald	Sub	8		1	0	0.00	0.37	2

Player	Pos	Min	G	A	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Yann Sommer	GK	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Matthias Ginter	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Nico Elvedi	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Ramy Bensebaini	DEF	87	1		1	0.02	0.00	0
Stefan Lainer	MID	90		1	4	0.48	0.10	1
Florian Neuhaus	MID	90	1		3	0.22	0.34	1
Denis Zakaria	MID	90			2	0.16	0.02	1
Valentino Lazaro	MID	77			1	0.06	0.05	1
Hannes Wolf	MID	87		1	0	0.00	0.90	4
Marcus Thuram	FWD	77	1		3	0.90	0.00	0
Lars Stindl	FWD	77	1	2	1	0.10	0.29	5
Jonas Hofmann	Sub	13			0	0.00	0.13	1
Oscar Wendt	Sub	13			0	0.00	0.00	0
Breel Embolo	Sub	13			0	0.00	0.05	1
Tony Jantschke	Sub	3			0	0.00	0.00	0
Patrick Herrmann	Sub	3			1	0.05	0.00	0

Starters first, then substitutes. xA is expected assists.

Before kick-off

Werder Bremen win 30% Avg odds 3.15

Draw 25% Avg odds 3.87

Borussia Monchengladbach win 45% Avg odds 2.13

Chances implied by the average closing odds, with the bookmaker margin removed.

Form going into the game

Werder Bremen L L L D L

Borussia Monchengladbach W L W L L

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Previous and next meeting

Previous meeting: Borussia Monchengladbach 1-0 Werder Bremen, 19 Jan 21 Next meeting: Werder Bremen 5-1 Borussia Monchengladbach, 01 Oct 22 All Werder Bremen vs Borussia Monchengladbach meetings

Shots, expected goals and player data from Understat. Results and odds from football-data.co.uk. Referee data before 2025/26 from the Transfermarkt datasets project.